Ratti, Manav.

The postsecular imagination : postcolonialism, religion, and literature / Manav Ratti. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013. - xxviii, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-229) and index.

Introduction: situating postsecularism -- Postsecularism and aesthetics: Michael Ondaatje's The English patient -- Minority's Christianity: Allan Sealy's The Everest Hotel -- Postsecularism and violence: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- If truth were a Sikh woman: Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the body remembers -- Postsecularism and prophecy: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses -- Art after the fatwa: Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories, The Moor's last sigh, Shalimar the clown, and The enchantress of Florence -- The known and the unknowable: Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide and Mahasweta Devi's'Pterodactyl, puran sahay, and pirtha' -- Coda.

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Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism--20th century
Secularism in literature.
Religion in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postsecularism.
Religion and literature--History--Commonwealth countries--20th century.